Amsterdam

[Opens Oct. 7 in theaters.] Terrific acting, cinematography, sets, and costumes dominate David O. Russell's compelling, quirky, factually inspired, multilayered, convoluted, wit-filled, star-dotted (Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Zoe SaldaƱa, Mike Myers, Rami Malek, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Olyphant, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Max Perlich), 134-minute period thriller based on the 1933 U. S. Business Plot political conspiracy that explores the intertwined relationship of a one-eyed doctor (Christian Bale), an African American lawyer (John David Washington), and an eccentric artist and volunteer nurse (Margot Robbie) who deal with horrific atrocities in WWI, find love and friendship in Amsterdam, and then become the targets of detectives (Alessandro Nivola and Matthias Schoenaerts) after witnessing a senseless, mysterious murder of a friend and daughter (Taylor Swift) of a general (Ed Begley Jr.) in 1933 in New York City amidst the attempted overthrow of the U.S. government by fascists sympathetic to Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
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